> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Blake > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 6:06 PM > > On 09/02/2015 03:57 PM, Clint Olsen wrote: > > > I'm also interested in generating images to preserve the > entire disk. > > What I'm wondering is whether doing this on a live system through > > Cygwin would produce a safe, bootable disk image or if the the APIs > > that Cygwin has to use or having the disk mounted would make this > > unreliable? <snip> don't do it with out snapshots... </snip> > There are various solutions that CAN capture an accurate > point-in-time disk snapshot.
For cygwin/Windows use the Volume Shadow Service (VSS). I have used (XP) cygwin dd and rsync to take (clone) images from the VSS managed drive. -Jason -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
